Put Your Best Tweet Forward: 2019 Edition

Twitter can loud and crowded, so getting a handle on how to be heard (sometimes literally as a musician) above the din is key to marketing success on the social media platform. Here we look at best practices 2019. _____________________________ Guest post by Victoria Morris, Interactive Marketing at The Orchard….

Jack Dorsey Says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is ‘Mastering’ Twitter, but Elon Musk Is His Favorite Tweeter

Dorsey said he respects the ‘ups and downs’ that come with Musk’s Twitter usage, which has famously landed him in hot water.

Twitter Stock ↓10% Despite 5th Consecutive Quarterly Profit, Rise In Daily Active Users

UPDATE: Twitter posted its fifth profitable quarter in a row on Thursday in a pre-market report to investors. But that was not enough to satisfy the market which sent the stock down almost 10% in early afternoon trading. At 1:30 PM ET, Twitter’s stock was trading at $30.90 USD, down…

Leon Bridges Turns Trump’s Tweets Into Songs [VIDEO]

Donald Trump is known for his outrageous tweets, and newly Grammy nominated singer Leon Bridges turned them into short songs this week on Jimmy Kimmel Live! It’s hard to know if one should laugh or cry… photo: Michael Vadon [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)]

YouTube To Disable Automatic Posting To Twitter, Google+

YouTube is disabling the ability to automatically repost activity (uploads, liked videos, etc.) on Twitter and Google+ as of January 31st. "We’ve found that sharing these actions with a custom message (instead of through automatically generated posts) provides a better experience for the sharer and their followers on other social…

TOP POSTS: This Week’s Most Read Posts On Hypebot

This week some of our most popular pieces on Hypebot covered a petition urging Spotify, Apple, and Amazon to label indie music, how bot farms are continuing to manipulate streaming numbers, why image is so important in the streaming age, and more. Spotify, Apple, Amazon Urged To Label Indie Music…

What Happens When You Fake Social Media Numbers

There have been a number of stories released in the past week covering a fake LA hard rock band created by a one Jared Threatin who purchased massive numbers of followers, views, and Facebook attendees only to, unsurprisingly, have the "real" tour go up in flames. _____________________________ This was written…

Social Media In U.S. Has Stopped Growing

Here are some stark statistics for those who rely on social media to market music: In the United States Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat are no longer adding new users. In fact Facebook’s daily user base has been the same for the 9 months. Twitter and Snapchat both actually lost users…